>> Any fleece at all will break if pulled hard enough.<<
And that's not a break. That's fiber abuse and someone should turn that
person in to the fiber police. If tugging gently, or snapping the lock,
causes it to pull apart, tear apart, or fall apart, that is a break.
>>The point is that each fiber will break 'on its own' at the place
where that fiber yields. <<
At some point in time, any fiber will break, if tugged beyond its stress,
or 'breaking' point, or pulled hard enough. That's not a break or fault in
the fleece. Incorrect technique is being used to test for wool break.
>>It the two locks don't have an almost even breaking boundary, then that
is just fibers breaking anywhere. <<
If a judgement is made that distributed breaking (which still sounds
suspiciously like wool break) is occurring in a fleece, and that decision
is based on the perception that it occurs on different time lines, than
each and every lock will need to be examined. It's a rare fleece that will
have the same fiber length all over. Short locks are going to break at a
different spot than longer ones.
It doesn't matter what language is used to describe it--if wool tears,
rips, or breaks, with gentle tugging, at any point along the staple length,
it has wool break. Oh. Wait. With the exception of the sun burned tips. But
those are another matter entirely. :)
wrnk
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